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This list showcases the top United Kingdom based CTO’ operating in the Compliance space. If you think a CTO’ is missing from this list, feel free to contact our editor on editor@beststartup.co.uk.
The individuals on this list have been included because of exceptional performance in one of the following categories:
- Innovation – Operating as a key part in an extremely innovative business or startup.
- Growth – Operating as a key figure in the growth and upscale of a market leading business or startup.
- Management – Showing exceptional management skills.
- Societal impact – Putting their business on the map for their positive societal or environmental impact.
Our Data – We source our data from OSINT (open source intelligence) and public directories such as Companies House UK, Crunchbase, SemRush and many more. The data from these sources should be treated with a degree of caution and verified yourself.
Rajiv Mathur
CTO of Chainvine
Dr Rajiv Mathur is the co-founder chief technologist at Chainvine – Blockchain/DLT technology company headquartered in the UK. Dr Mathur has 20 years of extensive industry and academic research experience with numerous years in technology leadership roles both in the UK and internationally with some of the best known companies in the world such as Vodafone, Telefonica, Lloyds Banking Group, HSBC, Nationwide Building Society etc. His experience in the industry has been in technology architecture, fraud detection and security of payments, digital transformation and agile delivery. In addition to his work in the industry, Dr Mathur also comes from an academic research background with his last academic position at Distributed Systems Engineering Research Group within the Computer Science Department at Imperial College London. Dr Mathur has a PhD in Mobile Communications Architecture from University of Strathclyde in Glasgow, UK.
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About Chainvine: Next Generation Enterprise Systems / Identity Access Management (IAM) / Technology Providers Blockchain
Jamie Hutton
Chief Technology Officer of Quantexa
Jamie is a global authority on financial crime detection solutions and architectures, having spent over 11 years assisting major banks, insurers and product companies in harnessing technology and data in the fight against crime. Jamie took early responsibility in shaping the direction of the Detica NetReveal product and its unique capabilities. He then went on to be the key driving force behind the EMEA/AP product direction for the SAS financial crime platform. Today he continues to assist global banks with massive data architectures for financial crime.
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About Quantexa: Quantexa is a global data and analytics software company pioneering Contextual Decision Intelligence.
Jakub Fijolek
CTO & Co-Founder of Coinfirm
Jakub Fijolek is Co-Founder and CTO of Coinfirm. An innovative IT and security specialist, has been analyzing and developing around blockchain, cryptocurrencies and their applications since 2010; the former head of multi-algorithm virtual currency mining farms.
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About Coinfirm: Coinfirm is the global leader in regtech for digital currencies and the blockchain-based financial ecosystem.
Philip Clegg
CTO of MirrorWeb
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About MirrorWeb: We archive thousands of websites a year, hundreds of social media accounts, and index billions of documents.
Toby O’Rourke
CTO of FundApps
Toby is the CTO at FundApps. With over 15 years’ experience in software engineering, Toby has led agile teams and most recently designed consumer facing, high volume, transactional systems for the online cash gaming industry. His spare time seems to be spent crashing mountain bikes, coaching kids rugby or operating dad’s taxi.
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About FundApps: We help investment managers harness the power of community and technology to automate regulatory compliance.
Rotem Hayoun-Meidav
Co-Founder & CTO of Vault Platform
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About Vault Platform: Vault Platform is the next generation of misconduct reporting for employees.
Chris Wessels
Co-Founder & CTO of Paybase
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About Paybase: Paybase is a end-to-end solution for Payments, Compliance and Risk.
Amar Bhogal
Co-founder & Chief Technology Officer of Konsolute Ltd
Amar Bhogal is the co-founder and CTO at Konsolute. He is a former software architect at Microsoft.
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About Konsolute Ltd, Konsolute R&D: Microsoft Gold Partner headquartered in London offering professional services and products for the Microsoft Cloud
Riccardo De Leo
CTO of CoVi Analytics
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About CoVi Analytics: Productivity solutions for regulated firms, reducing compliance effort & freeing staff to focus on business.
Tim Croy
CTO of Ampliphae
Co-founder and Leading Ampliphae’s development team, Tim has a distinguished career developing carrier-grade network management systems for some of the world’s largest telecommunications and networking companies. He has made significant contributions to networking international standards is the author of seven patents, all of which apply to network technologies. Building on a diverse background in product development and custom solution design, he is focused on creating innovative technologies within Ampliphae, which leverage the new wave of AI, Machine Learning and network programmability of cloud technologies sweeping across the industry.
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About Ampliphae: SaaS Risk Management – discover and manage the SaaS in your organisation
Kartik Venkatesh
Chief Technology Officer of Trunomi
Kartik is a multi-stack architect, and is well-versed in both open stack and Microsoft stack. He has been architecting and building web scale, secure, distributed systems and data solutions for 9+ years. Before Trunomi, Kartik was the Chief Architect for DLA, leading development of a Netflix competitor OTT solution for Latin America, featuring advanced machine learning and big data techniques. Prior to that Kartik led development and technology for several large scale products spanning multiple industries, including Gates Foundation, Starbucks, RedBull, Fox, AT&T and Sony. Kartik started his career at Microsoft straight out of high school, after being discovered for his programming aptitude. Microsoft sponsored his education at University of Washington, where he completed a B.S. in Computer Sciences.
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About Trunomi: Enterprise Privacy Platform allowing companies to meet all regulatory requirements for global Data Privacy Regulations
Irina Dumitrescu
Co-Founder and CTO of Nossa Data
Irina Dumitrescu is the Co-Founder and CTO of Nossa Data.
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About Nossa Data: Nossa Data digitises company ESG reporting and data management across multiple frameworks, to reduce cost of capital and compliance.
Rupert Jabelman
CTO & Founder of Col8
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About Col8: Unlocking the potential in every video by allowing you to search and use it more intuitively
